If Congress makes good on its promise to repeal parts of Obamacare, by 2019 an estimate 2.55 million Texans would no longer have coverage, resulting in greater financial pressure on local governments, healthcare providers and the insured, according to a new public health study.

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Saturday is the opening of the second part of the divided season on ducks in the South Zone, which includes all of the coastal and adjoining counties. It could not come at a better time as conditions have changed dramatically from two weeks ago when the first part of the season closed.

It looks like Santa will be taking a different route this year. The Santa Hustle race series, known for dressing its participants in Santa hats and fluffy white beards, has developed a new course for its Galveston race, scheduled for Dec. 18.

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Today, marks a century since the passing of Nicholas Joseph Clayton, the premier architect of historic Galveston. The island wouldn't be the place it is without his legacy of talent which continues to influence building design today.

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Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote that “The world will be saved by beauty,” which leads us to ask two rhetorical questions: first, does this mean that the world is lost and, second, is ugliness to blame for its condition? Rhetorical questions require no answer, but what we can see for ourselves is that in their multiple forms — artistic, personal and moral — beauty and ugliness contend for cultural supremacy. Today the general consensus among humanistic thinkers is that a “cult of ugliness” prevails.

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Ms. Cox Is the best choice for this JP Position.. Smart with common sense and will work full time and give everyone a fair shake in her court..That is what we need and what we are paying for. Not a part time judge who will practice between sales and deliveries over at the Hardware store. She is already shirking her county duty to rule on cases before her,, She is sending them to the Republican Chair , Barbara Meeks, who went to mediation school and is now a small claim court mediator! LOL The two parties in the case are forced to pay hundreds of dollars more to Barbara Meeks to mediate their case ... instead of the $96 dollar filling fee to get the judge to hear the case. Randall just orders the parties to Mediation with her court approved boot licker., (Meeks) Then Randall scurries back to the hardware store. This little payback scam is costing the citizens in PCT 1 court. This is how Randall paid back the Republican Chair for getting the Republican pct chairs to elect Randall to the JP 2012 November ballot..(It was vacated by Judge Foster when he resigned to run for county commissioner ) A vote for Randall and Meeks is a vote for this JP's scam.. . (I appears Randall and Meeks went to the same judicial scam school with Henry). A vote for Randall means the scam continues at the cost of the taxpayer and the parties in her JP court.. Remember rats always come up with a way to get more cheese..

Real Republicans should be conservative. A real republican would not run up the cost of litigation by using a mediator to do her job.. that is not efficient government.

Mick, I know its uncomfortable and you are between a rock and a hard place because you and Tony are long term friends. BUT while I do admire your loyalty.. She has lost hers to the taxpayer.. Dang it she has got to walk the walk and not just talk the talk. I always say look at their actions, It is louder than what they say. Do you approve a our Republican Chair getting case appointments from the Judge she anointed? ..and the plaintiff is stuck paying for it! Judge Tony Randall should just hear the evidence and rule, end of story. BUT nooooo.. they have to drag it out to make Barbara some cash.. Are they splitting it? Probably not.. But it looks bad. Real ethical Republicans do NOT act like this..Step back a minute and think about it.. Respectfully, JM